The Perils of Global Governance. Jon Kyl. United States Senator. Conference on Global Governance and the Challenge to the U.S.
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1 The Perils of Global Governance Jon Kyl United States Senator Conference on Global Governance and the Challenge to the U.S. Constitution American Enterprise Institute June 4, 2012 It s an honor to give the keynote address at today s conference on Global Governance and the Challenge to the U.S. Constitution. Introduction Our government was founded on two key principles. First, the people are sovereign. That means the American people are not subject to any rules imposed on them without their consent. As President Abraham Lincoln defined sovereignty, it is a political community without a political superior. Second, laws should be made through a democratic process, so that the people can hold their legislators accountable. 1
2 The Constitution uses federalism and separation of powers to promote these principles by moving government closer to the people and creating checks and balances to prevent undue concentration of power. The rise of global governance, I believe, challenges these principles. By global governance, I mean the use of multilateral treaties to delegate power on matters such as the environment, natural resources, and individual rights to new international bodies with broad powers and little or no political accountability. Such matters have traditionally been governed by the laws of individual nations, not by international bureaucracies. In the United States, self-described transnationalists favor using the institutions of global governance to subordinate the U.S. Constitution and American law to international norms. Advocates are not bashful about their intent. Referring to the United States, a former Mexican foreign minister put it this way: 1 I like very much the metaphor of Gulliver, of ensnarling the giant. Tying it up with nails, with thread, with 20,000 nets that bog it down: these nets being norms, principles, resolutions, agreements, and bilateral, regional, and international covenants. Proponents of transnationalist law argue that national sovereignty is becoming outdated and that law-making will become increasingly transnational. Europe now illustrates the perils of this approach to law-making. Under the European Union, a great deal of practical rule-making has been transferred from democratically- 1 Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castanada. Cited in Fonte, pp
3 elected legislatures to judges and to supra-national bodies run by unelected commissioners. Unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels and judges in Luxembourg make many of the major decisions of European private and public life. 2 Some of the issues that the transnational law movement has focused on are international in nature (such as the laws of war, arms control, global climate change, and other environmental concerns) and some are domestic (such as the death penalty, women s rights, and racial discrimination). Reasonable people, of course, can debate the substance of the movement s views on these issues. We do a lot of debating of this kind in our democratic process; and that that is where the debate should occur, not in international bodies that are unelected and have no political accountability. Transnational legal process Some of the clearest statements about the goals of the transnationalist movement come from an American Harold Koh, currently the State Department legal adviser and former dean of Yale Law School. In a 2006 article, Mr. Koh explained that transnational private actors blend domestic and international legal processes to incorporate or internalize international legal norms into domestic law: [K]ey agents in promoting this process of internalization include 2 John Fonte, Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled By Others? Encounter Books, 2011, pp
4 transnational norm entrepreneurs, governmental norm sponsors, transnational issue networks, and interpretive communities. 3 None of these actors are elected. None are answerable to the public. The rules they favor often do not win support from a majority of elected legislators in their communities. Here s how Mr. Koh describes the way that domestic law should be written 4 : [O]ne of these agents triggers an interaction at the international level, works together with other agents of internalization to force an interpretation of the international legal norm in an interpretive forum, and then continues to work with those agents to persuade a resisting nation-state to internalize that interpretation into domestic law. Let s pause for a second so we can absorb how remarkably undemocratic it is to talk of internalizing proposals into domestic laws in a resisting nation-state that is, a democratic country whose elected lawmakers refuse to give majority support to a proposal advanced by unelected activists. These activists are frustrated that they can t win support in Congress for their ideas, so they try to have their way in the courts without having to dirty their hands in legislative or electoral politics. 3 Harold Koh, Why Transnational Law Matters, Penn State International Law Review, 2006, pp Ibid. 4
5 I remain attached to the old but well-considered idea that the American people should be able to elect and to eject the officials who make our laws. Advocates of transnational law challenge not merely lawmaking technicalities, but the essence of democratic accountability. It s important to make a point here about the substance of our rights as citizens. The highest aim of our Constitutional system is to protect the inalienable rights that Providence not any government gave to each of us. The Constitution does this by creating processes. In the Constitution, process is substance. It is dangerous to belittle constitutional processes as mere technicalities. They are the essence of our constitutional system and our democracy. Short-circuiting democracy in the name of making society better, more enlightened, and progressive is not a service to the freedom and well-being of society. What are some of the means by which the transnationalists aim to short-circuit democracy to implement their theories? Treaties and customary law One technique is to build on multilateral human rights treaties that have come into force since the end of World War II. In those treaties, nations promised not to violate the rights of their own citizens. The United States has, in many cases, either refrained from 5
6 ratifying those treaties or ratified them with reservations that the treaties are not selfexecuting and that their provisions are not valid if in conflict with the U.S. Constitution. Transnationalists also work to domesticate foreign rules by a radical transformation of customary international law. For centuries, nations recognized customary international law if it met two standards. First, the practice was implemented by numerous states over a long period of time; and second, the states engaged in it not for reasons of convenience or mere policy but out of a sense of legal obligation. An example is the prohibition against harming foreign ambassadors. The two standards of state practice and a sense of legal obligation ensured that international law was grounded in state consent. 5 Proponents of the new international law, however, want to change the meaning of state practice. Transnationalists want the term state practice to mean not what states and their agents do, but rather what they say, observes Professor Paul B. Stephan. This new approach allows the rhetoric of individuals (including unelected officials and even private actors, such as law professors) to substitute for the objective standard of visible official state action. The transnationalists view, Stephan says, entails not the observable behavior of states... but rather what states assert as norms. Observing that the new international law... embraces a system of formulating and imposing norms on state and individual behavior that operates outside of any publicly accountable institution, Stephan rightly labels this, the antithesis of democracy. 5 Ibid. 6
7 Courts Once the norms favored by transnationalists have been talked up, touted, made the subjects of resolutions and otherwise established or recognized in international conferences, commission reports, resolutions of U.N. bodies, and the like, transnationalists count on domestic courts to play a large role in integrating them into national law. Just as courts have played a major role in extending transnational law in Europe, advocates see a similar role for American judges. Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the State Department, says judges are part of the dense web of relations building a global community of law. 6 They see themselves as insulated from direct political influence and can, she says, make common cause with their supranational counterparts against their fellow branches of government. 7 This is what has occurred in Europe. Using the concept of universal jurisdiction over war crimes, charges have been filed against American government officials in several European countries. Let s consider a few examples of transnational rights asserted in other forums against Americans as war criminals: 6 Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Real New-World Order, Foreign Affairs, September Ibid. 7
8 In the early years of the 21st century, lawyers filed war crimes charges under Belgium s universal jurisdiction law against President George H.W. Bush, General Colin Powell, and General Norman Schwarzkopf for allegedly killing civilians by ordering a missile attack on Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf war. The charges were dropped 8 only after then-defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld observed that NATO headquarters might have to be moved out of Belgium. In 2004, under Germany s universal jurisdiction law, 9 German and American lawyers filed war crimes charges against U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales, and General Ricardo Sanchez. German prosecutors dismissed the lawsuit, but a Spanish court later opened an investigation, citing its own universal jurisdiction law. 10 In 2011, 11 a prominent member of the largest party in the Swiss parliament called for the arrest of Henry Kissinger during a visit. The request to the Swiss General Prosecutor, later rejected, was based on criminal complaints by a number of activists in different courts around the world. Finally, in a different context, which shows that the U.N. will get involved as well, in 2009, The New York Times reported 12 that the Obama Administration could be violating international law with its use of drones in Afghanistan and 8 New York Times, Belgium Plans to Amend Law on War Crimes, June 23, Fonte, p Der Spiegel, April 30, Various news reports. 12 CIA to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan, New York Times, December 3,
9 Pakistan. The UN Special Rapporteur for extra judicial killings yes, there is such a thing said the Obama administration position was untenable. Needless to say, the U.S. does not agree that U.S. government policy can constitute the basis for war crimes charges against officials with a responsibility to carry out that policy, let alone that they could legally be charged in foreign courts under notions of universal jurisdiction. Attempts to arrest and prosecute U.S. officials on such charges violate American sovereignty and insult the fairness of our judicial processes. The American legal system is capable of prosecuting any U.S. official who should be held to account for violations of relevant law. It is an outrage to assert that U.S. officials performing their official duties under the U.S. Constitution should be answerable for such work to a foreign judge. If foreigners don't like U.S. policy, they can complain through diplomatic channels, but they have no right to violate American sovereignty -- the sovereignty of a democratic nation with a properly functioning legal system -- by trying to subject individual U.S. officials to foreign courts. Transnational law is new and rapidly evolving. We don t know what may be coming around the corner. But it s time now to start considering the critical issue: who makes law for whom. This question is essential to the ideas of self-government and national sovereignty. The European Experience 9
10 I mentioned that Europe is the center of much of this activity. Why did the European democracies accept the loss of a large part of their sovereignty and embrace shared or pooled sovereignty? Today, more than half of all legislation in Europe is initiated not by elected parliaments like the British House of Commons, but by the unelected European Commission in Brussels. It happened gradually, over decades primarily through the transnational legal process. Over several decades, the European Court of Justice established judicial supremacy over national parliaments and courts. Once that was accomplished, it was only a matter of time before national judges began enforcing ECJ rulings in favor of individual litigants against their own national parliaments. This is exactly how people like Harold Koh want it to play out here. Domestic courts, he says, 13 must play a key role in coordinating U.S. domestic constitutional rules with rules of foreign and international law. For Europeans, subjecting national courts to a superior authority was not wholly unnatural because Europeans think of sovereignty differently than we do. For them, sovereignty is Westphalian: the sovereign, the King, prince, or duke, and later the nationstate, was the highest political authority within a territory, so actions of the state do not always require the consent of the governed. In his book Sovereignty or Submission, Hudson Institute scholar John Fonte documents that Americans rarely think in Westphalian terms instead they think in what Fonte calls Philadelphian terms: sovereignty emanates from We the People of the United States, the opening words of 13 Koh, International Law as Part of Our Law, American Journal of International Law, January
11 the Preamble of the Constitution. This means that transnationalists will have more difficultly short circuiting the will of the American people. An American Response The upshot is that we have some defenses against encroachments on our sovereignty. The defenses are rooted in our unique founding principles. Constitutional democratic sovereignty can be defended through what I call a Madisonian approach to international law. Madisonianism is rooted in the basic concepts of American constitutional democracy: separation of powers, federalism, and representative democracy. In Federalist 46, Madison compares the powers of federal and state governments. He notes that the power of both federal and state authorities ultimately derives from the consent of the American people. Thus, Madison writes: The federal and State governments are in fact but different agents and trustees of the people, constituted with different powers and designed for different purposes... the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone... [p. 294]. Under this approach, unlike their European counterparts, U.S. national courts cannot unilaterally decide which international laws should be domesticated to bind Americans 11
12 at home. If U.S. judges or officials enforce new international law, they are engaged in lawmaking. That is a legislative and not a judicial function. If the people deem a law unwise, they can hold the lawmakers accountable at the polls. That is the essence of selfgovernment and democracy. Obviously, federal courts have a major role in interpreting treaties and implementing legislation, and even customary international law. But federal courts should not be the sole arbiters of what provisions of purported international law can apply domestically. Respect for the Constitution requires that our system of legislative accountability and federalism be respected. The authority of the states over criminal justice, education, property, contracts, and the like should not be infringed through international commitments. In ratifying treaties, the United States has often defended federalism by adding reservations to clarify that it is preserving the authority of the states in their traditional domains. The most crucial question in governance is always who decides. Who should decide what constitutes binding international law? The answer should be officials accountable to the American people through elections. The courts resolve disputes about treaties in force. But with the rise of transnational law and the potential importance of vague sources of purported law, the political branches should have a proper say about whether a treaty or international custom is in force. 12
13 If not, laws can be imported and imposed on the American people through the courts rather than through our democratic legislative processes. That is the aim of the transnational litigation process to give extensive interpretative (essentially law making) powers to the federal courts. But, in the interest of preserving democratic legitimacy, we should ensure it does not happen here. To do so, I believe that new legislation could ensure that there are authoritative, proper, Constitutional means in place to incorporate customary international law into American law. Rules should not be imposed by extra-constitutional Executive Branch machinations or by usurpation of the legislative function by judges exploiting the anti-democratic theories of the transnational law movement. Protocol I Let me give you an example of an abuse of power that calls for new legislation. Additional Protocol I was drafted in the 1970s to amend the Geneva Conventions of There are some good provisions of Protocol I but there are also numerous problems with it, such as increased protection for terrorists. Unlike the 1949 Conventions, Protocol I gives members of insurgent groups POW privileges even if they hide among civilian populations and do not carry their weapons openly. This puts civilians at greater risk, undermining a key purpose of the laws of war: protecting noncombatants. 13
14 In other words, Protocol I creates new rules that contradict the humane provisions of traditional international law. That s why President Ronald Reagan declared that the United States would not ratify Protocol I, a position that received the support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretaries of State and Defense, and even the editorial boards of both the New York Times and Washington Post. Protocol I remains unratified by the United States to this day. Nevertheless, officials of international institutions, such as the international criminal courts, have cited Protocol I as binding law. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has acknowledged that the United States does not accept Protocol I, but nevertheless concluded that Protocol I provides the contemporary standard when attempting to determine the lawfulness of particular attacks. An ICTY report declared that NATO apparently failed to provide clear advance warning of a U.S. air force attack on a Belgrade TV station, as required by Article 57 (2) [of Protocol I]. So, here we have a treaty provision, never adopted by the United States, treated as the contemporary standard binding on all. That s by an international body. What if a U.S. government official acted similarly? 14
15 In March 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that a different part of Protocol I, specifically Article 75, which deals with so-called fundamental guarantees for non-state combatants is deemed to be legally binding on the United States. Parts of Article 75 are unexceptionable. But other parts for example, the language dealing with the right to examine witnesses are a problem. If the administration wants Article 75 to be law in the United States, it should ask Congress to enact it. Congress can review how Article 75 compares with the Military Commissions Act and with current Defense Department guidance. The State Department s announcement was a power play by State Department lawyers, headed by Legal Adviser Harold Koh, to advance the transnational law movement. They believe that the State Department can deem a treaty, or even a part of a treaty, binding on the United States as customary international law, even if the United States has not ratified it. Though it shouldn t have to, Congress should clarify that Protocol I is not, in whole or in part, legally binding on the United States. And on the general principle of proper international law-making, Congress should clarify through legislation that the President lacks the authority to bind the United States to a treaty, let alone to a part thereof, simply by deeming it to be legally binding. I want to emphasize that this view does not arise out of any aversion on my part to international law as such. I believe America and the world benefit from proper 15
16 international legal order. America has an interest in promoting respect for international law abroad and at home in a manner that strengthens rather than undermines our constitutional system. Application of the Madisonian principles I described could help legitimate and strengthen international law, consistent with our Constitution. Because it focuses on the democratic process, the Madisonian approach may point the way toward the solution of other difficult foreign relations issues, such as the Law of the Sea. Although the United States participated in the drafting of the U.N. Law of the Sea Convention, the Reagan administration wisely declined to seek Senate advice and consent for the agreement. The Convention contains important provisions that remain within our national interest: it recognizes the right of free passage through territorial waters, among other navigation rights, which are critical to the operations of the U.S. Navy. But, despite alterations, UNCLOS also contains provisions that harm our national interest and undermine American sovereignty: for example, the treaty creates a new multinational bureaucracy designated an Authority that claims exclusive authority to govern economic development of the resources of the deep seabed and would require half of all royalties paid to the federal or state governments to be given to the U.N. for redistribution to poor countries. As Jeane Kirkpatrick, former ambassador to the United Nations and a long-time fellow here at AEI, testified before the Senate Armed Service Committee, The Law of the Sea Treaty was, and I believe, is disadvantageous to American industry especially in the participation in seabed mining and to American interests generally. She explained 16
17 the Reagan administration s decision: Viewed from the perspective of U.S. interests and Reagan administration principles, it was a bad bargain. I have long agreed with Ambassador Kirkpatrick s analysis of the Law of the Sea Treaty, and I have opposed Senate ratification because it would harm our national security and economic interests. Nevertheless, we are now told the Treaty (unamendable) could be considered by the Senate this year. A Madisonian approach might give us a way out of the bad bargain. Congress could enact a statute that makes the navigational parts of the treaty, which codify the historical practice of seafaring nations, the law of the land. Then the Senate need not ratify the treaty, which still contains unacceptable provisions, including issues related to the exploitation of the seabed. A statute, in effect, can separate the wheat from the chaff. And the United States will contribute to the clarification of customary international law, by contributing its practices and legal opinions on the law of the sea. Conclusion In sum, Americans want the benefits of international cooperation based on widespread acceptance of useful international rules of the road. But such rules, like our domestic legislation, should be adopted through democratic processes that ensure accountability on the part of the legislators. Such rules should not be imposed by extra-constitutional Executive Branch machinations or by usurpation of the legislative function by judges exploiting the democracy-belittling theories of the transnational law movement. 17
18 Respecting constitutional processes is crucial to protecting the substance of our Godgiven rights. ### 18
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